https://www.conservapedia.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=RayFlaghertyConservapedia - User contributions [en]2026-10-01T07:36:36ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.14https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Homosexuality_in_the_military&diff=963424Homosexuality in the military2012-02-23T13:49:36Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>'''Homosexuality in the military''' is handled in diverse ways throughout the world and throughout [[World history|world history]]. In [[United States|America]], General [[Peter Pace]] told the [[Chicago Tribune]], "I believe [[homosexuality|homosexual acts]] between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts."<ref>[http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200703/CUL20070313b.html Homosexuality 'Immoral,' Top Military Official Says, By Susan Jones, Cybercast New Service Senior Editor, March 13, 2007]</ref><br />
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Robert Knight of [[Concerned Women of America]] made the following insightful commentary about [[homosexuality]] in the military in the countries of [[Great Britain]] and the [[United States]]:<br />
{{Cquote|Despite a push to encourage military service by active homosexuals in [[Great Britain]], [[Pentagon]] personnel will hopefully consider the differences between Great Britain and the U.S.,” said Robert Knight, director of CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. “They should note that opening up the military to homosexuality might, just might, negatively affect recruitment, especially in the [[Red State|red states]].”<ref>[http://www.cwfa.org/articles/7553/CFI/misc/index.htm Push to Rescind Military Ban on Open Homosexuality, 2/28/2005, By Martha Kleder]</ref>}}<br />
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This is a remarkable admission that Red State Americans are more bigoted against patriotic fellow citizens than Brits are.<br />
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The [[conservative]] website [[LifeSiteNews|LifeSite News]] offers similar commentary on homosexuality in the military in the United States:<br />
{{Cquote|The DOD [Department of Defense] has long defended its policy against permitting homosexuals in the military, arguing that permitting homosexuality in the military would disrupt vital cohesion, discipline, and morale in military units and “seriously impairs the accomplishment of the military mission.”<br />
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“The presence of such [homosexual] members adversely affects the ability of the Military Services to maintain discipline, good order, and morale; to foster mutual trust and confidence among service members … who frequently must live and work under close conditions affording minimal privacy”.<ref>[http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06081604.html Homosexuals Howl at Military Policy Banning Them from Service: In fact some servicemen using the ban on homosexuality as a way out of the military during war By Peter J. Smith]</ref>}}<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|2}}<br />
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[[Category:Homosexuality]]<br />
[[Category:Military]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Harry_Potter_Witchcraft_Repackaged&diff=963421Harry Potter Witchcraft Repackaged2012-02-23T13:45:24Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged is an enlightening documentary on the [[Harry Potter]] series by [[Christian]] author J.K. Rowling, which has the main characters use Bible-forbidden magic. It was published in 2002 and is narrated by Caryl Matrisciana.<br />
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It touches on issues such as the satanic rituals, occult symbols, and other heresies which don't actually appear in the novels. It also raises the controversy of how these books have infiltrated public schools and libraries. It was created solely to expose the Harry Potter series as a recruitment tool for various cults, such as a large number of Harry Potter fan clubs.<br />
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This documentary has been heavily criticized by the [[liberal media]], calling it "crazy" and "insane".<br />
[[Category:Documentaries]]<br />
[[Category:Children's Fiction]]<br />
[[Category:Magic]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins%27_family_fortune_and_the_slave_trade&diff=963408Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade2012-02-23T13:40:16Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>[[File:Slave auction.jpg|250px|right|thumbnail|On February 20, 2012, the British tabloid the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>]] <br />
On February 20, 2012, the British tabloid the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' "family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref> On February 19, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that Dawkins had been asked by a ''Sunday Telegraph'' journalist to make reparations for his family's past.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref> Dawkins claimed in reply that he could not be held responsible for the actions of his great great great great great grandfather, and that he rejected the Biblical teachings about the Lord “visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation” as immoral. He also said "As it happens, my ancestry also boasts an unbroken line of six generations of Anglican clergymen, from the Rev William Smythies (b 1635) to his great great great grandson the Rev Edward Smythies (b 1818)."<br />
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The ''Daily Mail'' reported:<br />
{{cquote|Ancestors of secularist campaigner Richard Dawkins made their fortune from the slave trade, it has been revealed. <br />
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The outspoken atheist, who once branded the Catholic Church 'evil', is the direct descendent of Henry Dawkins who owned 1,013 slaves in [[Jamaica]] until he died in 1744 (198 years before Richard Dawkins was born.) <br />
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His 400-acre family estate, Over Norton Park near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, is believed to have been bought with money made through slave ownership hundreds of years ago. Dawkins' father, John, inherited the estate from a distant cousin.<br />
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Richard's son, Henry, married into another of Jamaica's powerful slave trading families and left 1,013 slaves worth £40,736 when he died 1744.<br />
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The links with slavery continue down the family tree and in 1796 another ancestor, James Dawkins, voted against [[William Wilberforce]]'s plans to abolish the slave trade<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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([[William Wilberforce]] was a devout [[Christianity|Christian]], philanthropist,[[abolitionist]], and the leader of the campaign against the [[Slave Trade]])<br />
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[[Thomas Sowell]] wrote: <br />
{{cquote|While [[slavery]] was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it, very late in hits history…not even the leading moralists in other civilizations rejected slavery at all…. Moreover, within [[Western civilization]], the principle impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very [[conservative]] religious activists – people who would today be called ‘the religious right.’…this story is not ‘[[politically correct]]’ in today’s terms. Hence it is ignored, as if it never happened.”<ref>Sowell, Thomas (2005) The real history of slavery. In Black Rednecks and White Liberals. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books</ref>}} <br />
== See also ==<br />
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*[[Racial demographics of the Richard Dawkins' audience]] <br />
*[[Atheism and slavery]]<br />
*[[Western atheism and race]]<br />
*[[Atheism and mass murder]]<br />
*[[Atheism and charity|Atheism and uncharitableness]]<br />
*[[Atheism and morality]]<br />
*[[Atheism and sadism]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category: Richard Dawkins]]<br />
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[[Category:Slavery]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins%27_debate_with_Giles_Fraser&diff=963403Richard Dawkins' debate with Giles Fraser2012-02-23T13:36:55Z<p>RayFlagherty: This was an opinion piece by the editor of The Jewish Chronicle, not reporting.</p>
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<div>On February 19, 2012 ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported concerning [[Richard Dawkins]]' radio debate with Giles Fraser:<br />
{{cquote|...some critics of Dawkins branded him "an embarrassment to [[atheism]]" after what many listeners considered a humiliation in a Radio 4 debate with Giles Fraser, formerly Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, in which the professor boasted he could recite the full title of [[Charles Darwin]]'s "[[The Origin of Species]]", then when challenged, dithered and said: "Oh God."<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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On February 14, 2012, an editorial in ''The Daily Telegraph'' claimed regarding the radio debate:<br />
{{cquote|Dr. Fraser skewered the atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins so fabulously, so stylishly, and so thoroughly that anti-religion’s high priest was reduced to incoherent mumbling and spluttering.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/For-once-Richard-Dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words - Atheists’ arrogance is their Achilles’ heel, as a cringemaking radio performance has proved By Stephen Pollard, Feb 14, 2012]</ref>}} <br />
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[[File:Vox Day.jpg|thumbnail|right|170px|[[Vox Day]] ]] <br />
[[Vox Day]] wrote concerning the embarrassing incident for Dawkins:<br />
{{cquote|As I have said repeatedly, Richard Dawkins is a huge intellectual fraud, and perhaps those who previously expressed incredulity at the idea that I would quite easily trounce the old charlatan in a debate will find it just a bit more credible now. This behavior isn't an outlier or a momentary lapse of memory, it is entirely characteristic. The man quite frequently pretends to knowledge that he patently does not possess and assumes he knows things that he obviously does not, which is why he avoids debate with those who are aware of his intellectual pretensions and are capable of exposing them.<br />
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It's bad enough that Dawkins couldn't come up with the name of what he considers to be the most important book ever written immediately after claiming he could do so, but in addition to stumbling a little on the subtitle, he even forgot the rather important part of the title that refers to the actual mechanism supposedly responsible!<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/02/richard-dawkins-sans-pants.html Richard Dawkins, sans pants, Wednesday, February 15, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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(The full title of Charles Darwin's book is ''On the [[The Origin of Species]] by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life'' and evolutionists rarely cite the book's full title as it is cumbersome. <br />
== See also ==<br />
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*[[Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins' public refusal to debate creationists]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins and William Lane Craig]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins and Dinesh D'Souza]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach]] ('''Denied debating him''' after losing video taped debate, refuses to debate another time)<br />
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*[[Atheism and cowardice]]<br />
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*[[Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian]]<br />
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*[[Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates]]<br />
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*[[Atheism and Debate]]<br />
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*[[Essay: Does Richard Dawkins have machismo?]] - [[satire]]<br />
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*[[Essay: Richard Dawkins in his native habitat|Richard Dawkins in his native habitat]] - satire<br />
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*[[Essay: This year's best atheist debaters|This year's best atheist debaters]] - satire<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category: Richard Dawkins]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins%27_family_fortune_and_the_slave_trade&diff=963398Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade2012-02-23T13:31:21Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>[[File:Slave auction.jpg|250px|right|thumbnail|On February 20, 2012, the British tabloid the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>]] <br />
On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' "family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref> On February 19, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that Dawkins had been asked by a ''Sunday Telegraph'' journalist to make reparations for his family's past.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref> Dawkins claimed in reply that he could not be held responsible for the actions of his great great great great great grandfather, and that he rejected the Biblical teachings about the Lord “visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation” as immoral. He also said "As it happens, my ancestry also boasts an unbroken line of six generations of Anglican clergymen, from the Rev William Smythies (b 1635) to his great great great grandson the Rev Edward Smythies (b 1818)."<br />
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The ''Daily Mail'' reported:<br />
{{cquote|Ancestors of secularist campaigner Richard Dawkins made their fortune from the slave trade, it has been revealed. <br />
<br />
The outspoken atheist, who once branded the Catholic Church 'evil', is the direct descendent of Henry Dawkins who owned 1,013 slaves in [[Jamaica]] until he died in 1744 (198 years before Richard Dawkins was born.) <br />
<br />
His 400-acre family estate, Over Norton Park near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, is believed to have been bought with money made through slave ownership hundreds of years ago. Dawkins' father, John, inherited the estate from a distant cousin.<br />
<br />
Richard's son, Henry, married into another of Jamaica's powerful slave trading families and left 1,013 slaves worth £40,736 when he died 1744.<br />
<br />
The links with slavery continue down the family tree and in 1796 another ancestor, James Dawkins, voted against [[William Wilberforce]]'s plans to abolish the slave trade<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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([[William Wilberforce]] was a devout [[Christianity|Christian]], philanthropist,[[abolitionist]], and the leader of the campaign against the [[Slave Trade]])<br />
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[[Thomas Sowell]] wrote: <br />
{{cquote|While [[slavery]] was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it, very late in hits history…not even the leading moralists in other civilizations rejected slavery at all…. Moreover, within [[Western civilization]], the principle impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very [[conservative]] religious activists – people who would today be called ‘the religious right.’…this story is not ‘[[politically correct]]’ in today’s terms. Hence it is ignored, as if it never happened.”<ref>Sowell, Thomas (2005) The real history of slavery. In Black Rednecks and White Liberals. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books</ref>}} <br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
*[[Racial demographics of the Richard Dawkins' audience]] <br />
*[[Atheism and slavery]]<br />
*[[Western atheism and race]]<br />
*[[Atheism and mass murder]]<br />
*[[Atheism and charity|Atheism and uncharitableness]]<br />
*[[Atheism and morality]]<br />
*[[Atheism and sadism]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category: Richard Dawkins]]<br />
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[[Category:Slavery]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins%27_family_fortune_and_the_slave_trade&diff=963397Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade2012-02-23T13:27:57Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>[[File:Slave auction.jpg|250px|right|thumbnail|On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>]] <br />
On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' "family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref> On February 19, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that Dawkins had been asked by a ''Sunday Telegraph'' journalist to make reparations for his family's past.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref> Dawkins claimed in reply that he could not be held responsible for the actions of his great great great great great grandfather, and that he rejected the Biblical teachings about the Lord “visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation” as immoral.<br />
<br />
The ''Daily Mail'' reported:<br />
{{cquote|Ancestors of secularist campaigner Richard Dawkins made their fortune from the slave trade, it has been revealed. <br />
<br />
The outspoken atheist, who once branded the Catholic Church 'evil', is the direct descendent of Henry Dawkins who owned 1,013 slaves in [[Jamaica]] until he died in 1744 (198 years before Richard Dawkins was born.) <br />
<br />
His 400-acre family estate, Over Norton Park near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, is believed to have been bought with money made through slave ownership hundreds of years ago. Dawkins' father, John, inherited the estate from a distant cousin.<br />
<br />
Richard's son, Henry, married into another of Jamaica's powerful slave trading families and left 1,013 slaves worth £40,736 when he died 1744.<br />
<br />
The links with slavery continue down the family tree and in 1796 another ancestor, James Dawkins, voted against [[William Wilberforce]]'s plans to abolish the slave trade<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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([[William Wilberforce]] was a devout [[Christianity|Christian]], philanthropist,[[abolitionist]], and the leader of the campaign against the [[Slave Trade]])<br />
<br />
[[Thomas Sowell]] wrote: <br />
{{cquote|While [[slavery]] was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it, very late in hits history…not even the leading moralists in other civilizations rejected slavery at all…. Moreover, within [[Western civilization]], the principle impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very [[conservative]] religious activists – people who would today be called ‘the religious right.’…this story is not ‘[[politically correct]]’ in today’s terms. Hence it is ignored, as if it never happened.”<ref>Sowell, Thomas (2005) The real history of slavery. In Black Rednecks and White Liberals. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books</ref>}} <br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
*[[Racial demographics of the Richard Dawkins' audience]] <br />
*[[Atheism and slavery]]<br />
*[[Western atheism and race]]<br />
*[[Atheism and mass murder]]<br />
*[[Atheism and charity|Atheism and uncharitableness]]<br />
*[[Atheism and morality]]<br />
*[[Atheism and sadism]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category: Richard Dawkins]]<br />
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[[Category:Slavery]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins%27_family_fortune_and_the_slave_trade&diff=963395Richard Dawkins' family fortune and the slave trade2012-02-23T13:23:04Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>[[File:Slave auction.jpg|250px|right|thumbnail|On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>]] <br />
On February 20, 2012, the British newspaper the ''Daily Mail'' reported that [[Richard Dawkins]]' "family fortune came from the slave trade".<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref> On February 19, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported that Dawkins had been asked by a ''Sunday Telegraph'' journalist to make reparations for his family's past.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref><br />
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The ''Daily Mail'' reported:<br />
{{cquote|Ancestors of secularist campaigner Richard Dawkins made their fortune from the slave trade, it has been revealed. <br />
<br />
The outspoken atheist, who once branded the Catholic Church 'evil', is the direct descendent of Henry Dawkins who owned 1,013 slaves in [[Jamaica]] until he died in 1744 (198 years before Richard Dawkins was born.) <br />
<br />
His 400-acre family estate, Over Norton Park near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, is believed to have been bought with money made through slave ownership hundreds of years ago. Dawkins' father, John, inherited the estate from a distant cousin.<br />
<br />
Richard's son, Henry, married into another of Jamaica's powerful slave trading families and left 1,013 slaves worth £40,736 when he died 1744.<br />
<br />
The links with slavery continue down the family tree and in 1796 another ancestor, James Dawkins, voted against [[William Wilberforce]]'s plans to abolish the slave trade<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103319/Campaigner-Richard-Dawkins-faces-awkward-truth-money-came-slave-trade.html Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade, Daily Mail, February 20, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
<br />
([[William Wilberforce]] was a devout [[Christianity|Christian]], philanthropist,[[abolitionist]], and the leader of the campaign against the [[Slave Trade]])<br />
<br />
[[Thomas Sowell]] wrote: <br />
{{cquote|While [[slavery]] was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it, very late in hits history…not even the leading moralists in other civilizations rejected slavery at all…. Moreover, within [[Western civilization]], the principle impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very [[conservative]] religious activists – people who would today be called ‘the religious right.’…this story is not ‘[[politically correct]]’ in today’s terms. Hence it is ignored, as if it never happened.”<ref>Sowell, Thomas (2005) The real history of slavery. In Black Rednecks and White Liberals. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books</ref>}} <br />
== See also ==<br />
<br />
*[[Racial demographics of the Richard Dawkins' audience]] <br />
*[[Atheism and slavery]]<br />
*[[Western atheism and race]]<br />
*[[Atheism and mass murder]]<br />
*[[Atheism and charity|Atheism and uncharitableness]]<br />
*[[Atheism and morality]]<br />
*[[Atheism and sadism]]<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category: Richard Dawkins]]<br />
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[[Category:Slavery]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Richard_Dawkins%27_debate_with_Giles_Fraser&diff=963394Richard Dawkins' debate with Giles Fraser2012-02-23T13:18:59Z<p>RayFlagherty: </p>
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<div>On February 19, 2012 ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported concerning [[Richard Dawkins]]' radio debate with Giles Fraser:<br />
{{cquote|...some critics of Dawkins branded him "an embarrassment to [[atheism]]" after what many listeners considered a humiliation in a Radio 4 debate with Giles Fraser, formerly Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, in which the professor boasted he could recite the full title of [[Charles Darwin]]'s "[[The Origin of Species]]", then when challenged, dithered and said: "Oh God."<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html Slaves at the root of the fortune that created Richard Dawkins' family estate, The Daily Telegragh, February 19, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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On February 14, 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported regarding the radio debate:<br />
{{cquote|Dr. Fraser skewered the atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins so fabulously, so stylishly, and so thoroughly that anti-religion’s high priest was reduced to incoherent mumbling and spluttering.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/For-once-Richard-Dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html For once, Richard Dawkins is lost for words - Atheists’ arrogance is their Achilles’ heel, as a cringemaking radio performance has proved By Stephen Pollard, Feb 14, 2012]</ref>}} <br />
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[[File:Vox Day.jpg|thumbnail|right|170px|[[Vox Day]] ]] <br />
[[Vox Day]] wrote concerning the embarrassing incident for Dawkins:<br />
{{cquote|As I have said repeatedly, Richard Dawkins is a huge intellectual fraud, and perhaps those who previously expressed incredulity at the idea that I would quite easily trounce the old charlatan in a debate will find it just a bit more credible now. This behavior isn't an outlier or a momentary lapse of memory, it is entirely characteristic. The man quite frequently pretends to knowledge that he patently does not possess and assumes he knows things that he obviously does not, which is why he avoids debate with those who are aware of his intellectual pretensions and are capable of exposing them.<br />
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It's bad enough that Dawkins couldn't come up with the name of what he considers to be the most important book ever written immediately after claiming he could do so, but in addition to stumbling a little on the subtitle, he even forgot the rather important part of the title that refers to the actual mechanism supposedly responsible!<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/02/richard-dawkins-sans-pants.html Richard Dawkins, sans pants, Wednesday, February 15, 2012]</ref>}}<br />
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(The full title of Charles Darwin's book is ''On the [[The Origin of Species]] by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life'' and evolutionists rarely cite the book's full title which some idiots think is racist. Actually in this context Darwin - who was an opponent of racism and slavery - used "races" in its common 19th century meaning of "breeds."<br />
== See also ==<br />
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*[[Instances of Richard Dawkins ducking debates]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins' public refusal to debate creationists]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins and William Lane Craig]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins and Dinesh D'Souza]]<br />
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*[[Richard Dawkins and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach]] ('''Denied debating him''' after losing video taped debate, refuses to debate another time)<br />
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*[[Atheism and cowardice]]<br />
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*[[Resources for leaving atheism and becoming a Christian]]<br />
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*[[Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates]]<br />
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*[[Atheism and Debate]]<br />
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*[[Essay: Does Richard Dawkins have machismo?]] - [[satire]]<br />
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*[[Essay: Richard Dawkins in his native habitat|Richard Dawkins in his native habitat]] - satire<br />
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*[[Essay: This year's best atheist debaters|This year's best atheist debaters]] - satire<br />
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[[Category: Richard Dawkins]]</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Essay:_10_reasons_why_American_atheism_will_see_a_significant_decline&diff=963393Talk:Essay: 10 reasons why American atheism will see a significant decline2012-02-23T13:16:03Z<p>RayFlagherty: /* One thing you need to clarify */</p>
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<div>== One thing you need to clarify ==<br />
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You keep referring to the "leadership" of the atheist movement. What you haven't clarified is how many atheists consider themselves a part of this movement, and are followers of men like Dawkins and Myers, and how many atheists are ''not'' involved with any organized group, and are unaffected by anything it does. I have a feeling there are many more who fall outside of any organization, and who don't give much thought to God or religion or even their own lack of belief, or outright disbelief. --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 10:14, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
:::I have never claimed the atheist movement has strong leadership. In fact, it could be argued that I have argued the opposite (for example, [[Atheism and cowardice]]). Plus, I wrote this article: [[Atheist factions]]. Nevertheless, your "herding cats" comment is a valid point. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:43, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
::::::SharonW, thanks. I added this sentence: "In addition, there is a lot of disharmony in the atheist movement (see: [[Atheist factions]] and [[Essay: Atheism: A house divided and in global decline|Atheism: A house divided and in global decline]])". [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:47, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
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::::My point was actually not that there was disharmony, but that many people are apolitical, and don't pay attention to anything outside of their own lives. They're just not involved with any movements, or organizations, and many people who might consider themselves agnostic or atheist aren't even aware of these so-called leaders or organizations for atheists. --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 14:30, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
:::::Wired magazine made the observation that atheists [[Atheism and women|tend to be quarrelsome, socially challenged males]] which would lend some support to what you have to say - as in "herding cats". [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:18, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
:::::::Thanks Sharon, I added this material: "[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] magazine made the observation that atheists tend to be [[Atheism and women|quarrelsome, socially challenged men.]] " [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:26, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
::::::::Talk about completely missing the point. What she was saying is that most atheists aren't part of any "atheist movement." They just don't believe in gods.--[[User:RayFlagherty|RayFlagherty]] 08:16, 23 February 2012 (EST)<br />
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I don't think the atheists are ready for battle; it's like they got their middle ages armor on while they do an uphill climb on a grease-covered mountain as they read the wrong manuals on how to fight! [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 01:26, 7 November 2011 (EST)<br />
:::Yes, the allies of atheism/evolutionism are getting weaker (liberal press, etc.) plus the atheists/evolutionists are totally unprepared for the onslaught of a grassroots campaign like the [[Question evolution! campaign]]. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:44, 7 November 2011 (EST)<br />
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== A thought ==<br />
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Atheists seem intent that there is no God- all while believing that we come from pond slime. They claim that God is some fairy tale that people made up while believing something easily as seemingly impossible. They should really actually listen to and debate creationists, instead of laughing them off as crazy lunatics.--[[User:JamesWilson|James Wilson]] 16:16, 12 November 2011 (EST)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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User:Conservative, could you please clean up the references? They look really messy! [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 08:04, 23 February 2012 (EST)<br />
:Just the references? If you ask me the whole article's a mess. --[[User:RayFlagherty|RayFlagherty]] 08:13, 23 February 2012 (EST)</div>RayFlaghertyhttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Essay:_10_reasons_why_American_atheism_will_see_a_significant_decline&diff=963392Talk:Essay: 10 reasons why American atheism will see a significant decline2012-02-23T13:13:15Z<p>RayFlagherty: /* References */</p>
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<div>== One thing you need to clarify ==<br />
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You keep referring to the "leadership" of the atheist movement. What you haven't clarified is how many atheists consider themselves a part of this movement, and are followers of men like Dawkins and Myers, and how many atheists are ''not'' involved with any organized group, and are unaffected by anything it does. I have a feeling there are many more who fall outside of any organization, and who don't give much thought to God or religion or even their own lack of belief, or outright disbelief. --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 10:14, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
:::I have never claimed the atheist movement has strong leadership. In fact, it could be argued that I have argued the opposite (for example, [[Atheism and cowardice]]). Plus, I wrote this article: [[Atheist factions]]. Nevertheless, your "herding cats" comment is a valid point. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:43, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
::::::SharonW, thanks. I added this sentence: "In addition, there is a lot of disharmony in the atheist movement (see: [[Atheist factions]] and [[Essay: Atheism: A house divided and in global decline|Atheism: A house divided and in global decline]])". [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:47, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
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::::My point was actually not that there was disharmony, but that many people are apolitical, and don't pay attention to anything outside of their own lives. They're just not involved with any movements, or organizations, and many people who might consider themselves agnostic or atheist aren't even aware of these so-called leaders or organizations for atheists. --[[User:SharonW|SharonW]] 14:30, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
:::::Wired magazine made the observation that atheists [[Atheism and women|tend to be quarrelsome, socially challenged males]] which would lend some support to what you have to say - as in "herding cats". [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:18, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
:::::::Thanks Sharon, I added this material: "[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] magazine made the observation that atheists tend to be [[Atheism and women|quarrelsome, socially challenged men.]] " [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:26, 28 October 2011 (EDT)<br />
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I don't think the atheists are ready for battle; it's like they got their middle ages armor on while they do an uphill climb on a grease-covered mountain as they read the wrong manuals on how to fight! [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 01:26, 7 November 2011 (EST)<br />
:::Yes, the allies of atheism/evolutionism are getting weaker (liberal press, etc.) plus the atheists/evolutionists are totally unprepared for the onslaught of a grassroots campaign like the [[Question evolution! campaign]]. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:44, 7 November 2011 (EST)<br />
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== A thought ==<br />
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Atheists seem intent that there is no God- all while believing that we come from pond slime. They claim that God is some fairy tale that people made up while believing something easily as seemingly impossible. They should really actually listen to and debate creationists, instead of laughing them off as crazy lunatics.--[[User:JamesWilson|James Wilson]] 16:16, 12 November 2011 (EST)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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User:Conservative, could you please clean up the references? They look really messy! [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 08:04, 23 February 2012 (EST)<br />
:Just the references? If you ask me the whole article's a mess. --[[User:RayFlagherty|RayFlagherty]] 08:13, 23 February 2012 (EST)</div>RayFlagherty